Stadiums in every part of the country are allocated in the budget, but the stadium in Birganj is not allocated? Our dreams are often out of budget! ... Birgunj deserves respect, not neglect. Rajeshman Singh, the metropolitan head of Birgunj, wrote a status on his social network Facebook on May 15 expressing his anger. Within a moment, the status had brought a big wave.

Like many residents of Birgunj, Mahanagar Prachham Singh was confident that this time the federal government would allocate the budget for the reconstruction of Narayani Stadium in Birgunj. But Chief Singh expressed his anger on social media after the stadium did not receive a penny in the budget for the next financial year announced by the Finance Minister of the Federal Government, Bishnu Paudel. After the post on social media, many sports fans of Birgunj expressed their anger accusing the federal government of neglecting the Narayani Stadium.

The four-decade-old Narayani Stadium is now completely dilapidated. The parapets on the east, north and south side of it have collapsed and are dilapidated. The original parafit is also worn out and not working. Drug addicts have taken away the rods used in the parafits and due to lack of regular maintenance, most of the parafits have become useless. It has also become difficult to organize sports competitions in dilapidated stadiums.

Last year, a parafit was constructed at the stadium at a cost of Rs 42.5 million. Two dilapidated parapets in the east-south corner have been demolished and new parapets have been constructed. The other parafit reconstruction work has not yet started . Mandev Hazra, the chairman of the then Madhyamanchal Sports Development Committee, a decade ago, according to the plan to build one/two parafits every year, during his tenure, a detailed project report costing three billion rupees  (DPR) has been prepared and submitted to the National Sports Council.

'It has been a decade since the DPR was submitted to the council,' he said, 'even if it is only one year, there was talk of constructing a parafit and for that the government would allocate the budget every year.' But he has accused Birganj of big discrimination by saying that the federal government did not allocate the budget for this stadium except for one time. In the DPR, there is a proposal to construct track and field, parafit, parking, cricket ground, multi-purpose covered hall along with the stadium.

 According to Krishna Kanhaiya Kayastha, a former central member of Nepal Cricket Association, Narayani Rangshala had done the work of giving energy to sports not only in Birganj but also in Madhesi territory in the past, but now it is sad that the same energy source has dried up. Birganj, which has produced many national and international players in sports like football, cricket, kabaddi, wrestling, badminton, weightlifting, boxing, is now lagging behind in the field of sports due to the lack of stadiums, he said. He has objected to spending huge amount of money every year by taking land on lease. "Where the land is scarce, the government does not invest in building infrastructure," he said, "where there is no land, it is investing huge sums of money to build a stadium on leased land". Since then, many big and small competitions including Tej Bahadur Amatya Gold Cup were conducted. But due to the lack of ground, appropriate sports competitions have stopped being held in Birgunj in recent years.